The Sun. — London, England, 1838-01-25 00:00:00

SPIAIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS - Nit'. Edward Lytton Bulwer, in alluding on Tues ay night to Mr. Roebuck's speech at the bar, ob seertd, " The Learned Gentleman no doubt made the most of his case ; but he (Mr. Bulwer) must say that considering the flourish of trumpets with which lie was announced—considering the solemn menaces of proving high crimes and misdemeanours against the Government—considering the length and elaborate bitterness of his oration--he must say that he never knew a speech of so formidable an exordium arrive at more feeble and impotent conclusions." The flourish of trumpets to which Mr. E. L. Bulwer here alludes, is no doubt Mr. Roebuck's letter to " the people -of England' . in the Weekly Chronicle of Sunday last. Mr. Roebuck was his own trumpeter, and something more ; for—previous to. his appearance on the stage —he would seem to have considered it neceseary . to denounce, as a set of - incapables, the little band whom he had prevailed on to- commit th, ill selves much more deeply to French Canadian-, politics than either justice or a prudent re n reputations w arran t e d. R e " to their own Russell's statem en t of • th to o Lord Jelin Canadian comp!aie: ,s, o - tus oealing m easure f or t h e courage of the ',i e . R oe b uc k exclaims, ioThe frozen ttat P icals seemed ; their intellect was all in abeyance ; and nothing was heard hut a whimpering that was marvellously like the do/erui cries of a whipped schoolbOy." 4 ' Was there no man," he adds, " in the House of Com mons who could have taken the Report of 1828, and have shown step by step how Administration after Administra tion had utterly neglected to carry into effect the recom mendations of that Committee? Could they not have ad duced the evidence of M. Morir, the deputy from the As sembly, wherein he expressly states that the House would have been satisfied if those recommendations had been car ried out ; that they were discontented because they were not so ? Could they not have taken the Reports of the Ministers' Commissioners, and read passage after pas sage , w h ere i n i t is declar e d th a t th e i r recommenations unhappily have not been attended to ? And, lastly, could they not have ad duced the resolutions of last year, in which the same ad mission is solemnly made by the two Houses of Parliament? Was there ever such material for an overwhelming answer? Was there ever such neglect of effective weapons? Burke 'tn his best days—Fox during his whole life—would have torn this puny successor to the name of Whig into ten thousand shreds, and gibbeted his reputation for ever. But there's no spirit now-a-days —we are all pigmies—men seem dwarfed, and they cannot exalt their understandings •or their sentiments to the height of the great argument before them. The world's liberties, the world's happiness, is nightly debated ; the result is made to turn upon some mere point of form ; and the attention of six hundred men, chosen, or said to be chosen, by twenty-four millions, is kept engaged by dissertations email :tins from the giant wisdo m o f Si r R o b ert Peel ab0 , ..1t the form' in which the Queen's Ministers should have addressed the House. Was there no man to cleel this slip-slop statesman a good lusty back-handed stroke, which should have sent him howling to his frie-ads, a sorry sight and despicable example? I own my blond boils when I think of these things. Oh, England; sib, my country ! is this your chosen band of rulers Is this the choice and prime of the intellect among you ? It cannot be so." - The Learned Gentlemen has paraphrased very hap ipily here Sir John Falstaff's lament over the extinc tion of bravery in England, with the improvement adapted for the more fastidious modesty of modern times, of substituting for the compliment which the knight paid to himself an indirect intimation only that a grant was in existence, and would in due time make his appearance. " There must be spirits of a higher order," he adds. Yes, there must. But to Sir John. " Go thy ways, old Jack ; die when thou wilt, if man hood, good manhood, be not forgot upon the face of the earth, then I am a shotten herring. There live not three good men unhang'd in England ; and one of them is fat, and grows old : God help the while a bad world, I say I I would I were a weaver ; I could sing all manner of songs. A plague of all cowards, I say still !" Well, then, after this flourish of trumpets, the giant did appear at the bar, and what did he do ? Not a whit more in reality than the dwarfs who preceded him. " The Learned Gentleman's historical recapitulation," as was justly observed by Mr. E. L. Bulwer, " had no more to do with the Bill before the House, than a history of the Deluge would have to de with a Bill to guard against the everflow of the river St. Lawrence. It has been remarked that some men we do not trust because we do not know them, and some again we do not trust because we do know them. In like manner we may say of Mr. Roe buck's historical recapitulation, that it had failed of its effect, because Honourable Members had become sufficiently acquainted with the facts of the case to be able to supply from their recollections an addition to every one of the Learned Gentleman's statements, which completely altered its complexion. All the flow of the Learned Gentleman, and he was abundantly fluent, was unavailing. We do not believe that even one of the little band whom he cast away, like so many squeezed oranges, when he could no longer use:hem, believed in his heart, after hearing his apo logy for the Legislative Assembly, that they were not during the last four or five years looking out for pre texts to justify a foregone conclusion—the dissolution of their connection with this country. To counteract the disposition which is so apparent that every one who reads the papers must see it, evinced by the Govern. ment of this country to carry into effect the recom mendations of the report of the Committee of 1828, with which they at one time professed themselves sa tisfied, they contrived to tack to every Bill introduced for that purpose seine obnoxious and objectionable provision which rendered the rejection of the Bill in dispensable. The Legislative Assembly were, in bad faith, scheming, with the pettifogging adroitness of experienced sharp-pracfcers, what might seem co lourable pretexts for insurrection. The whole of the mighty charges of misconduct against time Govern ment reduced themselves to au alleged delay on the part of Lords Gosford and Glenelg in the execution of what was by no means an easy task, the naming a sufficient number of good men for the Legislative Council to render that branch of the Legislature unobjectionable. Already we have, in the melancholy recitals of the cruel retalia tion for their losses by the volunteers at Eustache and Grand Brule; but too sufficient an evidence of the mischief of civil strife. The Scotch have a proverb to denote that the re-action corresponds with the ac tion, that the pendulum of a clock goes as far one way as the other. We have in the deep-seated resen titnents of Ireland a melancholy proof how difficult it is to lay aside the memory of outrages originating in feuds of race and religion. Before men draw the sword in civil strife, and commit to hostilities against each other men distinguished by diversities of race, religion, and habits, they ought to bethink them of the immense difficulty of arresting the course of revenge. A letter from Montreal in our City Correspondent's commu nication, from the most respectable source, states 'that the authorities have obtained possession of the plan of the insurrection, which was to have broken out on a number of points on the 16th December, but was precipitated. Mr. Roebuck would have it that these would have been no insur rection but for the arrest of the leaders, and the effect Produced on the multitude by the mode in which they were conveyed to prison. This has just so much truth as most of his other allegations :—there would have been no insurrection ; true—till the 16th. And we are to believe, forsooth, that all the training and organization was mere play ! Had, then, the instil:- reedier] been allowed to obtain maturity and le„'...rst forth Lilin infinite number of places on t /. .ge 16th Decem ber, who can say what the P:otoutit of havoc would have been before the in :entrection was put down ? and what a fouudatio., would have been laid for feuds Which for Ten'erations would h ave converted the pro vince . a pandemonium ? Owing to the prema ture explosion, the insurrection has been confined to tine district of Montreal ; and we entertain a hope that the excesses at Eustache and Grand Brule may generate no feelings of a dark character that may display themselves in future vengeance. B 1 it would have required far more powers than Mr. Roehuek possesses to succeed with 'a calm itasembly of English gentlemen in producing the per tuasion that the leaders of the French Canadians were Justified in having recourse to that last extremity of the sword. Hopeless ought the prospect of redress by peaceful and constitutional means to be which justifies the having recourse to arms. But the Mem bers of the Legislative Assembly, so far from being without hope, had the experience of a regular • progress in Reform ever since the Report of the Com mittee of 1898. The Canadians, too, so far from suffering under intolerable oppression, were, by all accounts, in a most enviable condition. With a reck lessness, and utter inability to understand their position, without seeming to have the least abi lity to estimate the relative strengths of Canada and this great and powerful empire, the political quacks of Canada, elated by the success of their little plots to battle the good intentions of the Govern ment, have plunged their poor dupes into a eonto".t which could not possibly have to them a successful issue. Never did men so richly deserve their fate as these guides of the mlor French Canadians. rul Mr. Roebuck, great in words as he drnns himself, ought by this time to hare lear.'.". that there is a mate rial difference between dreaming of large hosts ritsbiti . g crom the Uni bait of . • tP: j , States into Canadq, tkl,teetl by the :ne to-he-confiscated 14116, and the sober "I'ality. Dr. Franklin could not make such long speeches as Mr. Roebuck, for he never spoke longer at a time than ten minutes, but he was a safer politi cal guide ; and it is because the Legislative Assembly contained only chatterers, and were without statesmen possessed even of a tithe of his sagacity, that they have madly provoiced a contest which could not pos sibly he successful, and which has already produced such calamitous results.—Morning Chronicle. A purely military question relating to Canada would be much easier to settle than an inquiry either " how she has been," or " how s h e oug ht to be, governed." Questions, military and civil, have been abundantly, and not at all unnaturally, mixed up in the late Parlia mentary discussions. Lower Canada being in open rebellion, it was unavoidable that men should ask what it was that had thrown a once loyal and tranquil pro vince into a condition so calamitous ?—whether it was through Want of statesmanlike policy, or from an in sufficieAy of armed force ?--whether, in short, Mr. Roebuck's pithy accusation was true or not true—viz., that " Ministers had done everything in their power to provoke rebellion, and nothing to render it hopeless?" It will be seen that such a charge involves both a mili tary question and a civil one—both affecting the past conduct of her Majesty's Government towards the people of Lower Canada. The Ministers themselves have been not a little anxious to ingraft upon the above two topics a third, which should divert public attention from them and supersede them in the debates of Parliament— namely, how the error they had themselves committed, or, if they like it better, how the misfortune, inno cently no doubt, incurred by them, should be repaired, and what sort of political existence should henceforth be assigned to Lower Canada. Of the debate com mencing on Monday and adjourned to the following night, much the greater portion was consumed in argu ments upon the cause and origin of this Canadian war, than in the consideration of the remedy proposed for it by Ministers. Mr. Roebuck's statement at the bar of the House being, and professing to be, no more than a defen ce o f his principals, the majority of the Canadian Assembly, was of necessity an attack upon the British Government, which the Learned Gentle man extended over a period beginning with 1774 and ending with 1837. The learned advocate of the House of Assembly did not fairly grapple with the question, whether England bad not for a series of years, to this hour, been granting pri vileges to the Canadian people, and showering benefits on them, which in the earlier stages of their colonial connexion with this country they had never dreamed of—which, had they continued a dependency of France, that paternal monarchy would never have dreamed of bestowing ; and yet, in the absence or during their more partial or limited possession of which, the French race of Lower Canada never talked of grievances, but ardently and affectionately devoted themselves to the cause of great Britain, flocked to her standard, and bravely fought her battles, flinging aside contemptuously the menaces and temptations of old friends and new flatterers, who sought to withdraw them from their allegiance to the British Crown. Mr. Roebuck, who dwelt much on the magnitude of their grievances as the justification of that revolt into which the unfortunate dupes of Lower Canada had suffered themselves to be betrayed, never once ventured to explain how it was that the people proved themselves to be loyal and enthusiastic in their love of Eng land while their political privations were many, and the rights aid enjoyments conceded to them by the parent state were few, or had no existence. Whereas, in proportion as their wants have been supplied, their grievances redressed, and their general condition has been raised and amended, The organs of the province have breathed nought but disaffection and sedition, until now, instead of fighting for England at all hazards, and with the whole world against them, the ill-advised colonists have drawn the sword against her, without even the shadow of a definite complaint which could palliate the loss of a single life, or the disturbance of one half hour's tranquillity. It was one among the complaints of the Papineau faction in Lower Canada and here, that the Canadians felt as an intolerable grievance the refusal so to com pose the Legislative Council that it should " har monize" (that is the word) with the majority of the people's representatives ! To all which it is a solid answer, that a Legislative Council which should har monize with M. Papineau must be one which, so far as in it lay, would dissolve the whole frame of civil government in the' province, throw off the supremacy of Queen Victoria's crown, and dismember the British empire. If, therefore, the in tegrity of that empire, and the exception of the pro vince from all colonial duties, be that which, under the title of a redress of grievances, the Canadian malcon tents lay down as a sine qua' non, Mr. Roebuck indi vidually can neither be surprised nor disappointed at the ill success of a remonstance to the Parliament of this country which begins and ends with such a de mand on behalf of any parties in Lower Canada. One section of that passage in the Learned Gentleman's speech, to which we have already alluded, merits more serious consideration than any complaint against Great Britain generally, inasmuch as it is a charge ; not against the country, but a severe and a just one, against the Queen's advisers. Why, says the Canadian advo cate, if you did so much to incense the people of Canada, and goad them into rebellion, " why did you do nothing to make rebellion hopeless?" There is no reply to this. When Ministers saw (and even Lord Gosford in his lucid moments, and Lord Glenelg in his waking ones, did ace that, ;nstead of returning pea ce , there was constantly increasing evidence or a further spread of disaffection)—but when Ministers saw that they made no progress towards the conciliation of Canada, but, on the contrary, that none can tell where the spirit of sedition and defiance to lawful authority would end, any man of sense, any man of common foresight, and, above all things, any man whose ordinary foresight was capable of being quickened by an active feeling for the public peace and dread of human suffering, must have acknowledged than when fair means failed to avert the probability of civil war, means of another description, and effectual intans ought to be resorted t o . A n op i n i on o f the pealed Duke ec of Wellington is eag er ly an d reverent l y ae to by the Whigs in their extremity ; ;is an excuse for not having sent more tro,;,ps to'Lower Canad a . Now, even in its nre;„tary sense, that was a narrowly guarded and qualified opinion. Lord Melbourne had - .omitted that he felt the pressure of the charge of negligence for not having reinforced Lower Canada. No, says the Duke of Wellington, it is not there I consider S , ou to be mist severely pressed. It is, that after you did order troops to Lower Canada, you did not furnish with a fresh supply of troops the posts left naked by their removal from Nova Scotia and New Bruns w i c k. I t i s , t h a t y ou l e ft thoseimpor tant stations totally unguarded, and at the same time kept up no reserve whatever within reach of Sir John Colborise, should his necessities require it. The Whigs may make the most of this, and call it an ac quittal, if they like. A hardened culprit will some times, with a knowing wink, make a bow of acknow ledgment to the judge who sentences him to trans portation. This, however, is nothing to the taunt with which Mr. Roebuck regaled her Majesty's Minis jeorsa. str T iet he an D d u d k r e y o o f p N in V i e a l n En a g s t otno had the e c x o p n e fi d n ie e n d ey hi o m f s r e e lf . inforcements on military grounds. His Grace, with characteristic precision, spoke not one word on the political part of the question. He adverted merely to the requisite means of putting down a rebellion already broken out. But the advocate of Lower Canada went SUN. LONDON, THURSDAY, JANUARY ,25,A81A. • . „ further. Why ; '' ekeittinted lie ; " (rid you not ?re 'oeltt lhe in&urrection, and spare the shedding of human blood, by the display of so powerful a military force in Canada as would have tieterrect C' nu dians, front fising This ergUnterit also was put with much neatness and ability by Lord Francis Egerton towards the close of his Striliinfr, 4.fid elusive speech. Brit Fto futtber still. \Ve insist that Sir John Cutbrirne ought to have had so formi dable ft body of regular troops a t his eominatA.d would have released 'him froth the painful necessity of calling on th/ blikVe'ry, the loyalty, and at the same . titut 1 1.1 e violence and exasperated passion* Of iny large body of Canadian vo/trei.i': t;, assist in spilling the blood of thcri' countrymen, and---n;hat regular tror.V could be restrained from doing, hnt wb:o • undisciplined volunteers emild 7te!- - --=Zoininitting out rages upon .persilt and property not sanctioned by the lei Ws of war. The destruction perpetrated at St. Eustache and St. Benoit was owing, we see by the printed accounts, exclusively to the employ ment of volunteers in aid of the British soldiers ; and for that cruel and dreadful increase of the horrors of an armed contest, which has thus been aggravated into an irregular and revengeful civil war between neighbours infuriated against each other, the _Mi nister who withheld a - reinforcement of troops from Lower Canada must be considered amenable before God and man. As for the Bill by which all these evils are to be rectified, at the suggestion of her Ma jesty's Ministers, we have already stated our astonish ment that such a farrago of absurdity, imbecility, and gross duplicity, should have been concocted even by a Cabinet of which Lords Glenelg and John Russell are members, and in whose service " plain" John Camp bell enacts the Attorney-General's part. It seems past all moral possibility that such a Bill should ever pass into a law. That it should be acted upon to any honest or beneficial purpose is wholly out of the ques tion. However, within twenty-four hours we shall see it properly dealt with by Sir Robert Peel, who seems now disposed as well as qualified to put the cul prits to their purgation.—Times. - - trials of appeals and .impeachments, with several other grave and weighty matters; from all Whieh it appears that the antocratic dovertiminit dr die Canadas will have to deliberate and determine de omnibus rebus el Oibusilata 'Oils If all this eomple*ity of " arrange ment" and lOinblitiget recommendatory, mediatorial, and arbitrary; do not end some time or other in what people bdrri within the sound of hell are A r t td ball A 41 precidii§ we shall be equally astonished and delighted; Just look, most thinking public, at the abgutdity of prdposing to elect Chore than one-third of LiOrd ntirlidet , "eorri iinttce of Advice" from the rebellious province of Lower Canada by the suffrages of a constituency lately in arms against the Crown or Omit Britain; fkiia do*, in cause- liieiice of the excesses with which the suppression of the rebellion has been accompanied, more bitterly hostile in their hearts, no doubt, to the British power than ever. Is Lord Durham to take as his counsellors the creatures of Papincau, while Papincau himself is a fugitive rebel and a labelled and ticketted traitor ? This is another of the acts in the Whig farce of " concilia tion." It is anothr instance of the miserable indeci sion and vacillation which distinguish the Whig Cabi net. The farce has already been followed by a tra gedy, and now it would seem as if the tragedy were to he followed by a repetition of the farce I The House of Assembly of Lower Canada having pursued a fac tious course, ending in rebellion, as a commentary upon the practical wisdom of Whig conciliation, the Whigs now propose that a miniature House of As sembly shall be collected under the " suspended Con stitution " to enable Lord Durham to eradicate trea son from the laud, and plant peace and loyalty in its stead I Truly Whig wisdom and common, sense are very different things.—Morning Herald. A new political star in the East appeared on Tues day, sufficient to puzzle and dazzle the faculties of more than three wise men of modern times. A Con servative dinner was given at Winchester on that day to Mr. East, the accepted of Winchester, and to Mr. Escot, the rejected of the same place. The " ac cepted" and the rejected sat on each side of the chair man; and the scenic group which the three formed was quite in character with the whole performance, which, in classical language, might be designated as a political trilogy. No person spoke of any account but the three ; and the alternate effusions of Messrs. East and Escot may vie with anything recorded of Tityrus and IVlelibcaus by Virgil ; or of " Bozzy and Pozzy" by Peter Pindar. They were, indeed— " Arcades ambo, Lord Glenelg, having been roused into animation by Lord Brougham's " thunders," is resolved to show that he is at length wide awake. Ere yet his ears had ceased to tingle with the sharp and piercing tones of his Noble and Learned Friend's castigatory eloquence, he sat him down, and havingrubbed his forehead, dis encumbered for a time of its poppy-garland, indited a sort of " letter of advice" to the Earl of Durham, Autocrat of all the Canadas, an extract of which will be found in another part of our paper ; and we arc sure our readers will agree with us .on looking upon this literary production of the Colonial Morpheus as a curiosity in its way. Hereafter, when the philosophi cal historians of a future age shall ransack the deposi tories of public wisdom, to exhume from dust and ob livion the records of Whig intellect, to which England owes such unexampled grandeur and prosperity in the nineteenth century, this production of the Colonial Minister will be dug, as a treasure- trove, out of its place of repose, and estimated at a higher value, pro bably, than any other thing of the sort, with the ex ception of the protocols of Lord Palmerston. The au tocracy that exercises its sullen and desolating sway over the ruins of Polish liberty is greatly admired by Lord Durham—he went to St. Petersburgh to dis cover its virtues, and came back to sing its praises. He is himself now, by the grace of Whig policy, an autocrat " in little," and will have, like our northern ally, to wield despotic power over a country defiled with the smoke of burning towns, and red with the blood of its inhabitants—the victims of rebellion, which just, wise, and firm policy, would have pre vented. To Lord Durham, invested with these extra ordinary powers, the Colonial Secretary humbly sug gests that it might be proper for him to ascertain the wishes and opinions of the people of both Upper and Lower Canada, touching the questions which agitate the latter province, and also those which create divisions between that and the Upper province, in order to lay the ground for the permanent settle ment of those questions. Such is the professed object of Lord Glenelg's letter, and the means to accomplish it will be found set forth in the document which we publish. He tells Lord Durham that it seems advisable, Vlie should think fit. to call around him a certain number of persons selected from each province, as may be presumed, from their station, character, and influence, to represent the feelings of their fellow-countrymen in general, with whom he might take counsel on the most important affairs of the two provinces. His Lordship calls this divan by the not very familiar designation of a " Committee of Advice." In fact, it is to be the Privy Council of the Canadian potentate, but at what time he is to as semble it is to be left entirely to his discretion, as also whether he may choose to assemble it at all or not. The dictator is not to be dictated to, and so the whole matter is optional. But supposing the Governor-General, Vice-Admiral, Captain-General , Adjuster-General, and Plenipotentiary-Extraordi nary adopts the recommendati on of the Colo nial Secretary, and thinks proper to add a " Com mittee of Advice" to his own multiplied identity as the great many in one ; he is empowered to consti tute such Committee by selecting three members from the Legislative Council, along with ten members Sent from the House of Assembly of Uppe r C ana d a , as the contribution of "advice" from that province ; and under the suspension of the Constitution of the Lower Province, he is authorised to select three members of the body at present composing the Legislative Council, t a ki ng measures at the e same time, for calling on the electors in each of the five districts into which Lower Canada is now divided, to elect two persons to sit in the Com mittee. Thus the Committee is to consist of twenty six persons, six from the Legislative Councils of both Provinces, and, of course, not elected, but chosen by the Executive power of each Province, and twenty having en elective character. Of the body so constituted, advice is to be taken upon the questions i; debate between the Canadian Provinces, and in order to " meet the just demands of tipper Canada," Lord Durham is in conjunction with the Committee, to consider whether this cannot be best done by cre ating some joint legislative authority which is to pre side over all questions of common interest to both Provinces, and to bt.! a tribunal of arbitration between contending parties in either, with a reserve of its die. tinct Legislature to each Province in ill hiatttl'S of an exclusively domestieconcerni Lord Durham is, himself, of his sovereign wilt, to consider and determine what shall be the nature and limits of this novel authority, and all the particulars which ought to be comprised in any scheme for its establishments Thus his Lordship is to take the advise of the Committee, but to follow his own, ae so great a potentate ought to do. From his conduct in his father-in-law's Cabinet formerly, we may infer that his " Committee of Adeicc" must be sufficiently deferential arid Obsequious if they would expect the advettior-General, Vice-Admiral, Captain ' Getiehtl, Adjuster-General, and Plenipotentiary -Ex traordinary, to listen to them at all, or not to exercise pretty often his undoubted prerogative of " dissolving the Committee at his pleasure," or rather at his dis „pleasure. It is also suggested that the Constitution of 1791 should furnish another subject for deliberation " with a view to determine what measures may be safely taken to correct the defects which have hitherto interfered, at least in the Lower Pro vince, with its successful working." There is no sensible and reflecting man in England who thinks it necessary to ask the Canadian dictator, with his wittenagemote, what has prevented the successful working of the Canadian Act of Constitution of 1791, while he has before his eyes that voluminous mass of solemn foolery which is contained in the " concilia tion" correspondence of Lords Gosford and,,Glueeneeu,lg; At any time two such sentinels of the Q peace" would be quite enough to account for its vio lation. And mark I how the bloody tragedy which has just been enacted, and on which the curtain has not yet fallen, in Canada, is softened down into a de fective or unsuccessful working of the Constitutional Act before mentioned ! Besides all this, measures are to be taken for carrying into effect the resolution of Parliament respecting the Legislative Council of Lower Canada. Lord Durham and his Committee are likewise to be charged with the provision that should be made to meet the necessary expenses of the civil Government in Lower Canada—the state of the law affecting the tenure of landed property in that province--the establishment of. a Court for the, Pares cantare parati;" and the prize might have been awarded to them by the chairman in true Bucolic language : " Et Vitula to dignus et hic." In conformity with the laws of polite etiquette, it is to t h e " accepted," not to the " rejected" candidate, that we must, on this occasion, award the precedency of our notice. Mr. East startled his hearers by the an nouncement of an extraordinary event, which nearly takes away our breath while we describe it. He an nou►►ced to them " the disappearance of the whole body of the Radicals." " They have," said he, " ceased to exist." Belonging to this non-existent party ourselves, we had an extraordinary ignorance of the fact of our extinction. The recent large majority of the country must have risen on some fine morning during the late frost, and found, like the army of Sen nacherib, ‘.‘ that they were all dead men." Being de funct, according to this wise man of the East, our pen ou ght, in common propriety, to fall from our hands. We do not see clearly what title we have to write a syllable more—howbeit, inspired by so animating a theme as the Winchester festival, it may be considered as a posthumoxs effort, " offensive to ears polite." We will, however, like Gray's sleepy prophetess, when evoked from the grave by Odin, " Once again our lips unclose," in order to express our admiration of what followed. The reader will imagine that the prize of political dis covery ought to be awarded to Mr. East. But we have some doubts upon that head. It appears to us that his rival, Mr. Escot, who chaunted " vicissitn" on the other side of the chair, is either entitled to ex clusive possession or a fair participation of the price. We leave the courteous reader to judge when we have culled from his speech his view of the Utopia of an ad ministration. If correct, it will establish an entirely new theory and practice in the science of political economy. " What is wanted," says the honourable rejected of Winchester, " is not a government of one '" party to the exclusion of others" (viz., of us Tories, who thi rs t for the milk and honey of the oficial pro mised land) ; hut a Government composed of men who "have belonged to all parties." They are to "forget the " past," says this new luminary of ,the political he misphere, which no doubt they will be very well in clined to do if they are permitted. But the titiestioti is, whether the people will so readily forget them and their misdeeds, as they may very naturally be prompted to desire. However, setting this eitiota on one side for such seers as the Winchester Conservatives to un riddle, we submit to the reader, whether Mr. Escot has not . put in a very fair claim for carrying away the hell in the field of political discovery from his tiVal Mr. East. We humbly submit that he has. What a sublime beau ideal of Government has his fertile imagination conceived I Let us for a moment reflect on the " admired confusion" likely to be produced by an Administration composed of men who have be longed to all parties—and who arc especially enjoined and pl e d ge d to forget the past. Swift describes Gulliver at the island of the Laputans, admiring the mode which those " talented" philosophers had of pro ducing scientific publication. It appears that a given quantity of words in type were all jumbled and con founded together, put into a box supplied with a han dle and wheel, and having had two or three turns of the handle came out in a fit condition for printing and publishing. Some doubts, says the veracious his torian,, might occu r as t o th e qua lity of the q uan tity of books thus produced; but he slily informs the reader the Laputan books were as valuable in point of order, meaning, consistency, and intelligence, as the majority of the books produced at the present en lightened day. Mr. Escot's new theory of the best possible of administrations, seems to be copied from the above Laputan method of ameliorating the condi tion of society, and imparting acceleration to the "march of mind."—Morning Advertiser. THE PEERAGE.—During the present year, 1838, the following Noblemen, who arc minors, will become of age, and will be entitled to take their seats in the House of Lords, via., Lord Audley, Lord Gifford, Lord Silchester, Lord Lyt tleton, and Lord Ward. In addition to these the following Peers of Parliament are minors, viz. —The Marquis of Bath, aged seven years; Earl Nelson, aged fifteen years; Earl of Pomfret, aged fourteen years ; Earl of Darnley, aged eleven years; Lord Granard, ,aged five years; Lord Dover, aged thirteen years; Lord Ribblesdale, aged ten years ; and Lord Ternpleman, aged seventeen years. The present number of Peers of Parliament is 434, but as there arc thirteen minors it follows that 421 only can at present exercise their high func tions in the House of Lords. One remarkable circumstance attending the Peerage is that nearly all the eldest sons of Whig Noblemen are Conservatives. We may mention, among many others, the Earl of Darlington, heir to the Duke. dom of Cleveland ; the Earl of Wilton, heir to the Marqui sate of Westminster; and the Marquis of Blandford, heir to the Dukedom of Marlborough. LAUGHING CAPABILITIES OF TILE LAWYERS. —Counsel make a point of laughing, or at any rate attempting to laugh, at anything which comes from the bench, which either is, or is intended by its author to be, witty. They fancy that by affecting to admire, if they do not in reality, the witty sallies of the occupiers of the judicial seat, they thereby stand a chance of ingratiating themselves with the bench ; a consum mation very devoutly to be wished, both on their own and their client's account. I have never seen a unanimous effort made by the counsel to manufacture a laugh, by way of visible pre tended admiration of the cleverness of " his Lordship," with. out recalling to mind my own school-boy days, when all the pupils vied with each other as to who should greet any witti cism, perpetrated by the pedagogue, with the best laugh, in the hope of averting corporal punishment—which was at that time quite in vogue in all the grammar schools. In most of the Courts at Westminster-hall, but especially in the Court of Chancery, it is a treat of no ordinarykind to see a simultaneous effort made by the bar ; to greet with a good laugh, any witti cism from the bench. Any one would at once come to the conclusion that there was hardly a person among the number who was used to the laughing mood. Anything more clum sily performed than some of the exhibitions made by counsel in this way, it were impossible to conceive. Some of the phy siognomies of the learned gentlemen present on such occasions an aspect indescribably odd. The mortal struggle between their habitual gravity of expression, and the wish to impart to' their faces a laughing appearance for the moment, has an irre sistibly droll effect on the spectator. I have frequently wished on such occasions that Ho. ' arth had been alive and present. He would, I am convinced, in that case have produced a pic ture which would have thrown all the other productions of his pencil into the shade.— The Bench and the Bar, by the Author of " Random Recollections." 6iCANNLS, DOCK ST 9Cl<.: ASSLJRANCE Cii , !PA NIESAc. &c. &c. • LONDON, TUESDAY, JAN. 25. f4ui - gbet DI tf•lend Pete Pf. 14 1 ,. CANALS. per , ikares. Anti UM,, Paid. Share 4 7 0 7 Pei eeht. Ashien and Oldfidrit....AVerags 971. 18s. sh. 135 I.4iSt! . 0 . ik , itibi,..o le:26iich •• ••••Aterage 11?4,81,. ; 55 -.... 1,260 BasitigsUliqi oan:2••• •••••• •-••• 104)1. ail. 5 1 , 0 0 5 51. . Brecknock and Abeijattmlik:o...re:ls o . sh. we ?tow 1-:16.h 1. Os. girmingliarri, 1-16th share - . 4, 711 . 226 •. r . • I • fith) ;. ;" ',.. Ditto and Literpool .1unct...125/. eh. 100 pd !Ai CM ?!: 871,Igoi*Air and 'faiinton ....1001. sh. all pd 64 400 41. Chehin.4 glad BlitkeVater 100/ sh. 102 500 481. Coventry - 190/ •sh 701 1 (4 , Nii•ii 1 • • 4.545 Croydon 206,4 41..05. Dudley lOOl 137, sti. 13 'e , lo 11; lliqb Y 1 001 sh. 6,000 - • I.'fi4)iiP4 atltt m ,ay,ne 3,5751 31. Elleimeri:. ilia 440;414V.,,,Averagc 1351. sit. 77 2:31 W. Erewash 4i1.1,141111.1•••41001. sli. '7OO 1,297 2r4. - F )rth and Clyde Averap C 3.0.11,14 to, 610 I I el) 1:-$ (hand Jane.- li i ll " 219 2,8491 11. ith.'1 4 . 4 .11/elion •• -• • .,• lOOl. sh. a.., 1,500 1 0,000/. IL per cent. Ditto (optional) Loan. "few.;:iloofi '7O 3,093 Grand Western WO 13/:12... IM. Mani rganthire, Average cost 1721. 138. 4d. .0: 4 749 10a. ar;',.•10'..v,n 6,233 2/. Os Huddersfield - uffreerage 571. Os. 6d. sh. 37 100 Kensington i •lou sh. Al pd. 10 2 5,393 I!. ss. Kennett nd Avon, Average 39/.lBs. Ifldi et). 24 9,397; 91/, Leeds and Liverpool 100/. sh. 660 5451 131, Leicester l4Ol. sh. 925 1, 8 97 41. 108. Leitater Mil Ntiftlsarripton...Aver t3l. lOu. 91 2,400 101. Monmouthshiro .. 150 10/. Melton Mowbray . •• • 1 00!. eb. 200 500 01, Mersey and Irwell MOO 11.10 s. Macclesfield 100/.0. all pd. 59 247 171. Isleath.,, ~.., Ii 1001. 511, 995 1, 7 86 301. Oxford . e. 1001. sh. sdo 2,100 5/. Peak Forest A vet.lee about 781. sh. 104 1,113 12s. Regent's (or London) Ash. - ...r.31. 16s. ed. sh, 76 5,689 61. per cent. Aochdale Average 831. ch. ' 111 500 81. Shropshire r 251. sh. 199 800 9/. 10s. Somerset Coal l5 O/. s h . 1511 3,600/. 41 per cent Ditto Lock Fund Stock l2l. 10s. sh. 111 700 401. Stafford and Worcester l4O/. sh, 710 500 Pt. Shrewsbury 12.51. eh. 280 300 Pl. Stourbridge ....- 3,647 21. s. Stratford-on-Avon ...Average 791.95. bd. sh. 50 533 121. S, 'sea- 1001.86. MO Swan , 3,762 11. 15s. Severn and Wye and Railway Av. 351. sh. 27 ?,60oish. 321. 10s. Trent and Mersey, } - share 1001. sh. 560 1,119 Thames .nd Medway...Aver. 191. ss. Sd. sh. 2 1,0005h.1 151 Warwick aid Birmingham 100/. sh • 205 ,0001 sh. OMO I Is. Warwick and Napt lOO/. sh. 185 6,000 4/.os. Worcesl-4 and Birmingham...Av.7B/.Bs. sh. 791 5,000 255. Wilts an., Berks .. Average 671. 108. Bd. sh. 22 SOO 3!. Wyrley and Essington 125/. sh 75 , u ,.. Wisbeach lO5l. sh. 45 905 10. Wey and Arun llOl. eh. 224 DOCKS. 2,600 k 1,0651 . h 13p. e Commercial , .100 1. eh. 56 493,66711. 6 per ct. East India 1,238,3101/. 504.p.ct. London Stock 571 Ditto Bonds O9 Stock 95 1,380,0001. 411. p. et. West India 2,209 21. 19s. Bristol 68,324/. 51. per cent. I)ltto Notes, various amounts ll3 1,352,752 5 percent.-St. Katharine Stock 101 500,000 41 per sent. Ditto Bonds . lOO 200,000 a rer cent. Ditto Bonds for 10 years 991 Shoreham Hat bour • 2.500 .... ~.. Deptford Pier 2Ol. sh. 31. BRIDGES. 1,600 ll's. Hammersm iti 5Ol. sh. 221 7,t31 Southwark, Old AV. 631. 2s. Bd. sh. 2 1,700 11. 15s. Ditto, New, of 71 per cent. 5O/. sh. 14 5,000 Waterloo lOO/. sh. 3 5,000 Ifla. ed. Ditto, Old Annuities of 5/. 5,000 16s. 44, Ditto, New Ditto of 71 40/. pd 161 60,000/. 51. per cent. Ditto Bonds ll6 3,418 17s Vauxhall Average 701. 10s. 3d. sh. 18 ASSLRANCE COMPANIES. 2,000 31110 e Albion 500/. sh. 501. pd $0 50,000 5 p et cent.l i a nd 15s. Alliance, British & Foreign 100/. sh. 10 1/. pd IS 50,000 0 per cent. Ditto, Marine 1001. sh. 51. pd 6 1 24,000 1/ per O. Atlas 1,20015 h. 51. Birmingham hire 20,000 41 per cent. British Fire 2501. sh. 50/. pd 42 12,000 61. per cent. British Commercial 501. sh. 5/. pd 61 5,000 51. per cent. Clerical, Medi...o,Ba. Life, ICOI. sh. 9.110 s pd 42 d 4 4,000 21 lOs County 1001. sh. 10/. p 20,000 58. Eagle ,.,,,,.501. sh. 51. pd 5 1 „„,,, [5 per cent. Economic Life lOOOl. sh. 2501. pd 275 ..,,,,, a rid 30/ bs. 2,271 225. per cell . European Li.. 'Ol. sh. all pd 22 50,000 2s. Ditto, New 2O/. sh. 2/. pd 11 4,000,0011. 71. per ct. Globe ., .. Stock 155 20,000 51* Guardian ... ............. ........ 100/. sh. 271/ pd 33 10,000 Os. lid. Hope 50/. sh. 51, pd 6 2,400 51. 71, ed. Imperial Fire 500/. sh. 501. pd 1261 7,500 9s. Imperial Life 100/. sh. 101. pd 10 13,159 4/. percent. Indemnity Marine PO/. sh. 8/. pd 191 2,020 31 10s Kent Fire IS.. 5Ol. sh. all pd 82 31. Ditto Life li , of Ms 79 10(00 16s. Law Life 100/. sh. In: p 4 251 5,000 IN, London, Firs '2sl. sh. 121. 10s, pd 151 3,900 10s. London, Ship "51. sh. 121. 10s. pd 151 30,000 5/. per cent. Palladiuril cite.,. 50/. sh. 2/. pd 2/ Os Od 50,000 4/. per cent. Protector Fire ..........,u.. 201. sh. 2/. pd 17., Od 9,500 I/. Provident laic 1001: sh, 101. pd 29 100,000 64, Rock fife 201. $ll. 11. p d 61 1389,220/ 5/. per Cent. Royal Exchange Stock . .., 9251 6,000 5 per cent. Univertity Life lOOl. sh. 51. pd 51 50,000 4 per cent. United Kingdord Life 2l. pd JOINT STUCK B ANKS 25,000 8 per cent. Agric.andComm. of Ireland 25/. Cr. 10.1, pd 14 5,0(9 A ustrala.ia 10,000 .10 percent. Bank of Brimingham 561. sh. 101. pd 13 10,000 19 per cent. Birmingham Bank . 5Ol. sh. 51. pd 161 30,000 5 per cent. London and Westminster ~.100/ sh. 201. pd 213 3,000 4 per cent. Lancaster ......... .......... ........ 1001. sh. 201. pd no 25,00 e Liverpool 1001 sh. 10/. pd 23 50,000 '7l per eent Manchester and Liverpool 1001. sh. 15/ pd 20 Discount' 20,000 7 per cent. Manchester. 100/. sh. 251 pd 27 20,000 Provincial Bank of lreland 1001. sh. 25/. p 4 381 20,'G0 National Bank of Ireland 5 Ol. sh. 1731. pd 151 10,000 5 per cent. National Provincial Eng. lOOl. sh. 351. pd 3.3 i 10,000 GloucestOrshlre.. ... 6,000 leper cent. Hampshire ....WI. sh. 5/, pd 9 GAS LIGHT AN L) COKE COMPANIES. 2,500 1/ fos 54 Bath 5O/. sh. 161. pd 24 5,000 . nnl , f 51 ' P t " eh t q Ditto Provincial 5,-- Land Bs. 58.3 201. sh. 19 d 221 929 5/ lOs Birmingham 5Ol. sh. 98 1,250 21 Os Bristol 1,500 31 lOs Brighton ,.....4301. sh, 11 750 31 104 Ditto, New 2Ol. sh. 181. rid 10 2,4/1 44 ptl Ont. Brighton General 20/. sh. all pd 17 4,000 41. Continental (.7ansolidated lOO/. 621/. pd $5 1,000 " 10/. City of Londdil .ilalin. lOO/. sh. all pd 180 1,000 61. Ditto, New 11,000 41. 10s. Equitable us o l: pd 301 10(.00, `.?.4 per cent. Imperial 8(0) s'l. ilz , :t t;eoti Tsle of 'Planet 251. sh 2Ol. pd 20 2,350 6/. per cent. liidtlithtlettt '3o/. sh. all pd 483 9,000 3/. per cant. Phcenix - . - sin 50/. sh. 39/. pd 211 1,000 41. per cent. RatclifF . ill OW, sh, 804 pd 56 4,000 South Metropolitan 8,2 0 0 51: Per cent. United General 5O /. s h . 461. pd 24 'lO 51. Or Cent. lef, , rrick.,. 501. sh. 50 400 M. per cent Wakefield .-'.ilri• - ., 251 . sh. 421 12,000 3/. Westminster Chartered •itsiiliff , , 501. sh. 49 6,000 12s. Ditto New 511.01, 10/. pd 81 860 Yarmouth 20/. sh. 18/. Nil 9 WATER WIRKS. 1,800 Os. fiiirWiflgliOn 25/. sh. 25/ pd 211 1,434 61. East London.. i.. i:45.) , :. 1 . 100/. sh. 149 5,500 21 lOs Grand Junction ....Average 411 18s, 4d. sh. 54 2,000 2 1 . Kent IRV. , h. 43 ;373 1 1 1 1 13 Liver pool !tootle 2201. sli. 3'26 1,500 I 1 I i flew River London Bridge Water Annuities 58 6,486 I/ 15s 51r.ne:,0t6 and Salford lOO/. sh. 53 1,000 4 per cent. Sinai London oniirilini 100/. sh. 87 8,294 4/. West Middlesex ....Average 64/1. 12s. 9d. sh. 90 1,300 11 Its York Building Co, Lessee Pr0p..,...,1004 th, 35 IRON RAILWAYS. 0,000 hiftrilngham and Derby 2O!. pd 151 9,500 Birniitighaiii. 210. d Gl o ucester l2l/, pd 41 7,500 Birmingham, firiAtol, anti Thames Junction 01 15, 1 .00 Bristol and Exeter OM!. the 10 pd 3 660 Calcutta and Saugur 50!. sh. 2/, 1.1 o#, 7,f)00 .....m Cheltenham and G. Western...! 001. sh. 71/ 2 3,008 ... Clatrnec . lOOl. oh. 1001. pd 30 12,000 8,000 Dublin and Ki1kennY....1.0...100/. sh. 21 pd 11 60,1100 Eastern Counties 251. sh, 3!. pd lf Grand .Tunct ion 1001. sh. 1131. pi 18k Great North of England lOl. pd 23, 1 'sr Great Western lOOl sh. 65 7 . pd 82 2,000 Hartlepool 1001 . sh. 100 / pd 100 $lOOO Hull and 4elby 10,000 2,100 3/. per cent. Leeds and 5e1by........ ..1110 eh. 41 1,500 11.51. Leicester and Swannington -.501. sh. all pd 711 5,102 10 per cent. Liverpool and Manchester-1011.8h. 100/.1.51 195 10 per cent. Ditto Quarter Shares "51. pd 61 36,000 London and Brighton 50/. sh. 51 pd 11 12,000 20,000 3 per cent. London and Greenwich .. 20/. sin. 20/. pd 171 25,000 London and Birmingham „JOU ill. 904 pd 163 ...... ... Ditto Quarter Shares 5/. lid k9l 20,000 ......... London and Southampton ....:;01. sh, 591. pd ai Ditto ditto New. 7,000 ......... London and Croydon Trunk 20/. sh. 24. pd 21 7,000 Ditto Scrip 141. sh. 5/. pd 13; 12,000 London Grand Junction ~..80 1 . sh. 51. pd 04 10,000 'AI inchester and Birmingharn...lo/.sh 71. pd Fi North Midland lOW. sh. 25/. p 0 25 Nortliell and Eastern lOO/. sh. I=l. d 4 2,600 Freston and Wyrc 50/ sh 3'l. pd 28,000..... .. South notern and Dover - .. 71. pd 1, 0 00 10/.. per cent. Stockton and Darlington lOO/. sh. 240 9,000 Tha•, , es Haven 56- All el. lOs. pd 01 1,400 Westminster and Greenwich 501. sh. 2/, pd 01 0,000 York and North Midland 5O sh. 61. pd 2 MINES. 11,000 Albion Copper 5/. sh 31/. pd 12 4,000 11. ss. Allen 151. oh. 121. lOs pd 111 111,000 ... ..... Anglo Mexican, iss. 51. pm.... 1001, ch. all pd 3 Ditto Subscription o.°l pn 4 2,0(10 I' L E Bolanos 10,000 11. 10s Brazilian Imp. iss. 5/. pm 35/. sh. 20! pd 201 6,0, 0 Macatibas & Cocaes United 25/.0. 231/. pd 5 11,000 Ditto St. John Del Rey 201. sh. IX pd 31 10,000 Bolivar Copper Company 201. sh. 20!. pd 5 10,000 ......... Ditto Scrip._ 101. sh. 51. pd 6 20,000 British Iron 5O/. oh. 501 pd 35 6,000 British Copper 5l. sh. 411. pd 1; Cat? Branca 9/. pd 71 Candonga 7ll. pd 71 10,000 11 Copiapo 2O/. sh 124/ pd 61 8,500 ... Columbian, iss. 5/. pm. 2,850 31. English 000 12/ Ks. pd 20, General Mining Association...2o/. sh. 15/. pd 10 6,155 Mexican Company 1001. sh. 551/. pd " 3,1)110 Potherou Consols lO/, sh. 81 pit 3 11,500 Real del Monte, Unregistered " Ditto Loan Notes 1501. pd 1121 .0,000 United Mexican, iss. 2 pm ....40/. sh, all pd Dit , t. Scrip • 2 Ditto New Scrip 5l / rd West Cork 50/. sh 50/ IA '3B LiTBABY 1 INSTUFU'IIONS. 1,000 London, with Bronze Ticket 75g‘. ch. 2.1 1,500 ... ...... London University 1001. eh. all pd 23z 700 Russell osge. sh. p King' College lOO/. pd 26 MISCELLANEOUS. 10,000 15, Australian Agricultural 100/. sli 2FI/. pd 34} 8,000 41. per cent. British American Land Company... 23/. pd 14 10,000 til per cent. Canada Company .1(N)/. sit. 281. pd 30 200,000 51. per cent. Upper Canada Loan 95 City Bonds, 4 per cent lo' 1 ... .',,,,,, it. Fes. General Steam Navigation —.15/. vh. 131. pd 23/ ',''' - I 10/.pfr cent. Hudson's Bay Stock- 2,000" 11. London Coin: Sale Rooms Av. 75/. sh. 19 13,000 Caoutchouc Company 251. 01. 2i/. pd la New Brunswick L an d Company 411. pd 11 2, 754 5/. per cent. Reversionary InterestSoc...lool. sh. 1001. pd 1 2 7 1 2,633 51. per cent. Ditto New 100/. sh. 701. pd S 6 4,000 10,000 01. Van Die ner.'s Land 1001. sh. 171. pd 91 LIST OF SCOTTISH COMPANIES' PRICES, DEC. 30, 1837. BANKS. 4500,00 N. 61. p. ct. Bank of Scotland...... 83/. Cs Bd. sh. all pd 100/. tooo,o x/ . 5i p. ct. !loyal of Scotland 1 0 0/ . s h . a ll pd 1611. 0 00)0/. Bp. ct. British Linen Company 100/. sh. ,11 pd 2361 3,000,0061. N. p. ct. Commercial 5001.:h. 1001. pd 1751. 5.00,009 4 , cr. %. tional lOO/, sh. 10/. pd 161, 2,00,,,0001. 61 p. ct. Glasgow Union 250/. sh. 50/. pd C 9!. 3,000,04.0/. 4p. ct. Western of Scotland • 2001. sh 301. I>d 291/. INSURANCE COMPANIES 25(.0005h 61 p. ct. Scottish Union - --- ---- 2 - 0/. sh. 1/, pd Tie - ,50Q 61 p. ct. Hercules lOO/. sh. 101. pd 131 15s pi( ,000 sp. ct. Insurance Co. of Scotland...Jo/. sh. all pd St 5s 50,00 g 6p. ct. North British 2001. sh. 10/. pd 1:31. 1,000 5 p. et. Caledonian Fire 1001 sh. 101. pd 19 / Os s,u on 6p. ct. Edinburgh Life 1001. sh. 101. Pa 141 " 100,000 31 p. ct. West of Scotland lOl. pd 5163 MISCELLANEOUS 4,810 Edin, and tilts. Un. Cana1...50/. sh. all pd 42/. Ditto Allocated ,Yfij. sh. all pd 65/. 5,400 5 per cent. Edinb. Joint Steck water.... 251. sh. , a i l! ~,,p d 4 1 1 1 : Carron Iron Company ......'5Ol. sn•,,,, a ',' 1 " - ,A I,ooosh 15 per cent. Shotts Iron Foundery 5 01 s° •)"" 1— 431. ;o,oo+'l 3 per cent. Edinburgh & Leith Glass 2131. sh, 161. pd 611. 4,500 10 per cent. Edinburgh Coal (las .5/. sh. all pi 58/, 4050 10 per cent. Glavow t 3 - , 51. sh. all pd 611 750 71 per cent. Leith Coal (;as 2Ol. sh. all pd 4' !. 1,206 Edinburgh end Dalkeith Railway...sol. 111 501. 2,000 5 per cent. Equitable Loan Cernpany."2s/. sh. 9/. pd 10/. GENERAL EDUCATION -LORI) BROUGHAM'S BILL. The following is it abstract of Lord Brougham's Bill just presented to the House of Lor‘ts Tlitl preamble sets forth that— " WhereaS It is expedient to provide for the more regular and hencficial application of the funds from time to time granted by Parliament in air! of the good education of the people, wherein, under Providence ; doth chiefly consist the safety and happiness of the realm ; and whereas it is expe dient to extend the powers of Municipal Corporations and of the parishes and townships of the realm at large in further ance of the same end. Be it enacted by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty," &c. " A Board for promoti.,g education is to be formed con sisting of five Commissioners, namely, the President of the Council, one of the Principal Secretaries of State, and three _ _ i d Commissioners appointed by the Crown, but who are not io be removable except by Address of both Houses of Parlia ment. The Commissioners are to have the power of appoint ing a Secretary and two Clrks : they may sue and be sued in the ttame of the Secretary, and arc to have the usual pro tection in actitm, against themselves and those acting under their authority. - -Ciatt7.93 1,2, and 26. The Commissioners an? to manage and distribute the funds vegted in them from time to time by Parliament for establishing sedans, or maintaining, extending, or improving those already establisfied, whether infant schools, ordinary schools, model schools, or schaoh for training teachers. They are also"to manage and distribute any other funds vested in them by individuals for the like purposcs.—Clause 3. " They are to receive applications for advice and assistance from governors and trustees of schools, and to verify the state ments made to them by directing examinations of the same.-- Clause 4, Proprietors and Conductors of schools may lay before the Commissioners a copy of the deed of foundation, if any, of such school, and of the rules and regulations of the same, with an application to have it enrolled, and the Commissioners may cause the same to be enrolled as placed under their exa mination, and such school shall continue under their examina tion till application made by like parties to have their enrol ment cancelled. If the Commissioners refuse to enrol any school on such application the parties may appeal to the Judi cial Committee, who shall consider the matter in a summary way, and their determination upon the said appeal, and upon the costs, shall be binding awl conclusive.—Clause 5. " For this and other purposes they may appoint inspectors of schools—not more than ten. The appointment and re moval of inspectors is vested in the Life Commissioners, with the concurrence of one of the officers of State, and the Trea sury is to settle their remuneration and allowances; but the particulars of all such appointments, removals, and payments are to be laid before Parliament.—Clause G. " The inspectors have power, under the authority of the Commissioners, to examine the state and conducting of all endowed schools which come within the late Acts for inquir ing into Charities, of all schools which have been or shall be assisted by any grant of public money, of all schools to be established or assisted under this Act, and of all schools and seminaries which shall hare been enrolled under this Act. They may also, but with the consent of those having the care and superintendence of them, examine the state and conduct ing of all other schools. In both cases they are to report to the Commissioners, but they are to furnish a copy of their re port to the parties, with the address of the Commissioners, in order that any answer or explanation may be given.—Clauses 7,8, 9. " In all Municipal Corporations already or hereafter incor porated, the Town Councils may lay before the Commissioners; plans and estimates for the establishment of new schools, and for the support of schools already existing, with the proposed rules and regulations for the conduct of those schools ; and the Commissioners may approve of the same, in the whole or in part, or with variations, and authorise the Town Councils to levy ti rate for carrying into effect the scheme as approved by the Commissioners ; and after the rules for the conduct of any school have been approved or fixed by the Commissioners', they are not to be altered without their consent.—Clause 10. " The Commissioners may enrol any Mechanics' Institution or other Society or body established for purposes of inquiry or education in science, letters, or arts, with a list of the names of all who have been ordinary and attending members; for a year ending not more than one month before the enrol ment, such lists to be signed by themselves, and counter signed by the Treasurer or Secretary ; and the Board shall give certificates, to be called one-year certificates, to all such at have been enrolled by them within three months before, and certificates to be called three years' certificates, to those who have been thrice enrolled at any time.—Clause 11. " One hundred pounds penalty for false representation, &c.—. Clause 12. " Appeal by any six members against refusal of Com missioners to enrol to be determined summarily by the Ju dicial Committee upon affidavit and upon written statement, or by council, at the option of the parties appealing.— Clause IS. " Any five rate-payers in any parish or township not within any municipal corporation may require the overseers to call a meeting to be termed a school meeting, with one to three weeks' notice, at which meeting all persons may attend and vote who are rated in the district (i. e. parish or township), or owners of any rated property, or who, being resident for twelve months before the day of meeting, have a one-year certificate, granted not more than three months before the meeting, or three-years' certificate, granted at any time, or who have certificates of year's attendance at any Univer sity, or Inn of Court or Chancery, or years' attendance at any of the great schools, or at any school under the exami nation of the Board : such certificates to be signed by the re gistrars, secretaries, or masters of the Universities and great schools, and by the masters, countersigned by the inspector of the other tchools.—Clause 14. " Proviso for punishing forgery and false representation ; seven years' transportation, or three years' imprisonment.— Clause 15. " Penalty on overseers refusing to produce rate-book, 501. _Clause 16. " The school meeting to choose a Chairman, who shall have a casting vote ; meeting may then choose five persons, being rated to or owners of rated property in the district, to be called the School Committee for the district ; and in case of ♦acancy, school meetings to be held for filling them up, and one of the five to go out yearly, and the same, or some other person duly qualified, to be chosen to fill the vacancy.— Claus. 17. " One of the five members to be chosen Chairman for the year, and to preside and to have a casting vote, fix the time and place of each meeting, giving notice to the other mem bers ; three 5. quorum, and if only three present all must con. cur.—Clause 18. The Chairman to keep minutes and enter all resolutions with this names and votes ; any member may enter his reasons of assent Or dissent in the minutes, which shall be open to in spection of all the members at each meeting, and to the in spectors at all times, and be sent to the Boar if required.— Clause 19. " The School Committee may lay an estimate before the Board of the expense of establishing any schools or semina ries required for the district, or of the expense required fur maintaining, extending, or improving those already esta blished, or to be established, with particulars of the plan proposed, end their minutes relating to the same; and it the Board approve in whole or in part of the same, or of the same with alterations or additions, they may authorise a rate to an amount to . be specified, which rate shall, if the School Committee think fit, be by them assessed and levied by the Overseers, and paid over to the Treasurer of the County, who shall pay to the order of the School Committee, counter signed by the Board.—Clause 20. " Overseers required and empowered to levy distress en Overseers making default.—Clause 21. " Appeal to quarter sessions against rate.--Clause 22. " Two or more parishes of townships may, by the consent of their several School Committees be united in one district for school purposes, and the several School Committees to form one joint School Committee for the whole, with the like powers as the several School Committees have in single parishes or townships, Rates to be apportioned to the parishes by the joint' School Committee with consent of Board, but the majority of any several School Committee to concur in any rate to be levied on its parish.—Clause 23. " Courts in which any proceedings under the Act arise to have full power over costs.—Clause 24. ABSTRACT OF TIM CLAUSC ON RILLIGIOVI INSTRUCTION. " Proviso, that in all schools under the Act the Scriptures shall, as a part of the reading, be read ; hut children of Roman Catholic or Jewish orents not to be obliged to be present at such reading, unless such parents are willing that they should attend.... Clause 26. --- - T. COX SAVORY, Goldsmith; B t c., 47, Cornbill, London ( Seven Doors from Grucechurch-street), informs thePublie, that he offers SILVER WATCHES, on the celebrated PATENT LEVER CONSTRUCTION (the most accusate on which a watch can be made), for SIX GUINEAS EACH, with the latest im provements, i. e. the detached escapement, jewelled in four holes, capped, hand to mark the seconds, hard enamelled dial, and maintain ing power to continue going while winding up. N.B.—lf in Hunting Cases, 10s. 6d. extra.—Second-hand Watches purchased in exchange. BIBTIIS. On the 21st inst., in Old Burlington-street, Mrs. John Simpson? of a son. At Munster House, Fulham, on the 23d inst., the lady of John Laurie, Esq., of a son. MARRIED On the 18th inst., at St. Pancras New Church, Henry Olces Bradford, Esq., to Frances Knight, of Egremont• place, only daugh ter of the late Captain J. Knigt.t. DIED. At Spanish Town, Jamaica, on the Ist December last, aged 34, Colin Mackenzie, Esq., of Mountgerald, North Britain. On Monday, Jan. 22, at Bedford, Mrs. Wells, relict of Samuel Wells, Esq., banker, of Biggleswade, and sister of Sir Thomas Hankin, Colonel of the Royal Scots Greys. On the 22d inst., Thomas Ebsworth, Esq., of Basin&ll-street, in the 66th year of his age. On the 23d inst., in Upper Southampton-street, Pentonsille, Mr. Abraham Lewis, aged 69. On the 18th inst., in Grosvenor-place, aged 19, William, second son of Major-General Sir W. C. Eustace, R. C. IL On the 19th inst., George Boone Boupell, Esq., Master in Chan cery, aged 76. On the 19th inst., at Green Trees, near Tonbridge, Thomas Dibble, Esq., aged 67. On the 19th inst., in Hyde Park-street, Louisa, wife of J. Cox, Esq., aged 50. On the 19th inst., Eliza, eldest daughter of J. Copeland, Esc•v of Surrey-street, Strand, and Sudbury Lodge, near Harrow. London: Printed and Published by MURDO YOUNG, at No. 112, Strand, at The Sun Office, No. 112, Strand, in the county Mildlesex. —Thursday, January 25, 1838,